Arn Anderson has no resentment toward AEW or company president Tony Khan following his departure from the promotion in 2024.
During a recent Q&A edition of his “The Arn Show” podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer reflected on the top of his time in AEW and explained that his role with the corporate largely revolved around working alongside Cody Rhodes. Once Rhodes left AEW for WWE in early 2022, Anderson felt the storyline that brought him into the promotion effectively got here to an end. He said,
“I’ve got to be honest with you. I used to be brought in to be Tully’s trainer, manager, manager, force of reason — whatever you wish to call me. And when he left, he form of took the angle with him.”
“When he broke in, he got a pleasant rub being with Cody in some tags and all that, which was about pretty much as good as you possibly can get at that exact time. It was latest, it was fresh.”
“However the angle with Cody — he took it with him, and it was only a matter of time because, you recognize, I did a few shows with… what’s the guy that was the large jacked-up guy? Wardlow. And, you recognize, it was just form of out of left field, out of nowhere.”
“Tony treated us rather well. I’ll never say anything [bad] about Tony Khan. He’s a category act, used me one of the best he could within the situation. Just certainly one of them things. Timing is every part — it was just bad timing.”
“You must turn around and treat your employer with the identical respect that he has treated you with. Because he doesn’t must put you in a first-class hotel, he doesn’t must fly you top notch, he doesn’t have to supply transportation backwards and forwards to the airport, to the hotel. I mean, Tony Khan treats his talent top notch.”
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